Bhatpara Assembly Elections 2016

Trinamool Congress had trailed in the Bhatpara Assembly segment in the 2014 Lok Sabha election to Barrackpore which was, though, won by the TMC. TMC sitting MLA Arjun Singh had won the Bhatpara assembly seat in 2011 by polling 70.94 per cent of the votes. Internal factionalism in the party has the potential to play havoc with his fortunes this time.

Bhatpara Assembly Election Candidates List and Results

Name of the Candidate

Party Name

Results

Arjun Singh

AITC

Won59253

Jitendra Shaw (Jitu)

IND

30318

Rumesh Kumar Handa

BJP

14333

NOTA

NOTA

2015

Gopal Raut

IND

788

Partha Bhattacharyya

SUCI(C)

688

Dharmendra Singh

IND

678

Shatrughna Singh

IND

504

West Bengal Election

As said earlier Bhatpara is currently held by Arjun Singh who won it in 2011 third time in a row by defeating his nearest CPIM rival Nepaldeb Bhattacharyya by a massive margin of 44385. While Arjun Singh received 66938 votes, the CPM secured got 22553 votes. BJP’s Pradyot Kumar Choudhary was placed third with just 2,099 votes.

Earlier Arjun Singh had won the seat in 2001 and 2006. Bidyut Ganguly of CPIM emerged victorious from the seat 1991 and 1996. CPM’s Sitaram Gupta was elected in 1959, 1969, 1977 and 1982.

Bhatpara is located in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Bhatpara assembly constituency is formed by the areas covered by Bhatpara municipality.

Bhatpara is one of the seven assembly segments falling under the parliamentary seat of Barrackpore. Barrackpore Lok Sabha is currently represented by TMC MP and former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi. Other six assembly segments in the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat are Barrackpore, Bijpur, Noapara, Jagatdal, Naihati and Amdanga.

In the 2011 assembly election to Bhatpara, the constituency had an electorate of 123505. Of them, 72918 were males and the rest were female voters who numbered at 50587.